Word: strongmanism
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Imperialist Aggressive Troops from South Korea." The occasion is getting little recognition in South Korea, whose citizens are more concerned with their country's chaotic politics and reeling economy; beset by crop failures, scandals and corruption, the once puritan regime of Army Strongman General Park Chung Hee is in deep trouble. But Panmunjom celebrated the anniversary in its own way by holding the 175th meeting of the Armistice Commission...
Recalling the earlier Egyptian-Syrian merger of 1958 (Nasser's overbearing grab of Syria's military, economic and political plums drove the country to secede in 1961), Premier Bitar cried: The time of the strongman is past! We are opposed to the cult of personality, and this is one of the great differences between ourselves and Nasser. We've suffered much in the past through 'strongmanism,' and we're determined to banish it forever...
...world." Although the Red Chinese are wooing the Buddhists everywhere, there is no real evidence so far that the Reds are using South Viet Nam's Buddhists, as the Diem government charges. On the other hand, Diem has not succeeded in using them either-unlike Thailand's Strongman Sarit Thanarat, who has shown that, when handled properly, they can be a solid, anti-Communist force...
...gunfire lasted for four hours, and three Syrian MIG fighter planes-serving either the government, the rebels, or their own whim-knocked out the radio transmitter. When the radio limped back on the air, it was still in government hands. The strongman of Syria's ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, General Mohammed Hafez, who is both Defense Minister and army chief of staff, broadcast that the effort "to disturb the peace" had been crushed. Next day he announced the break in the rules of Syrian-style coups: eight rebel military men and twelve civilians had been executed. Hafez blamed...
...colonial territory, African leaders in Addis Ababa last week vociferously supported Algerian Premier Ahmed ben Bella's call to "establish a bond of blood" with the Angolan nationalists. The war is a grievous burden for tiny Portugal, which already has Western Europe's lowest living standard. But Strongman Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. 74, is by now too deeply committed to preservation of Angola as a "province" of Portugal to yield the Africans even token self-government without imperiling his own 31-year reign in Lisbon. Despite the steady rise in the guerrillas' strength and effectiveness, Salazar...